Israel's Daniel Medved, 17, won the 200 meter butterfly race in 1:58.15, topping Israel’s record-holder Erez Peren (2:01.31), and improving the Maccabiah record by 5 seconds, setting an international peak time in Israel.

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Brian Goldberg, a 22 year-old American, won the 100 meters in 51.06 seconds, three hundredths of a second in front of Israel's Shai Livnat, almost an entire second ahead of the U.S.’s Scott Goldberg (52.40), who has twice won Olympic gold medals.

Aniya Gostmlasky of Israel is the fastest female Jewish swimmer (57.62 in the 100 meters), while Danit Kama of Israel easily won the 200 meter backstroke in 2:18.36. Israel's Tom Barry took the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:19.27, while American swimmer Rebecca Samuch won the 200-meter butterfly race.

Asala Halaj from the Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin had the last word in the 200-meter women’s breaststroke competition, winning with a time of 2:46.93.

SOCCER

Israel’s national soccer youth squad finished in a 1-1 draw against South Africa, with a goal by Ori Paso of Hapoel Jerusalem. The A side overwhelmed the U.S. team 3-0, and the B team finished with a comfortable 4-0 win against South Africa.

JUDO

The Judo competition will begin in two days, and the focus will be on Argentine world champion Daniella Krukover'smatch against Israel’s Alice Schlesinger.

The games’ human story comes with Eliham Zakif, 25, of Azerbaijan, who is blind and has arrived in Israel for medical treatment in the Eynaim medical center. Zakif lost his sight during his country’s civil war, met with Israel’s first Olympic medalist, judoka Yael Arad.